Microsoft Certification Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 172 199
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 135 123 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.80% 1.41% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.86% 3.52% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 121 90 90
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +18.42% -10.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,188 £47,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,675 £58,750
England median annual salary £44,543 £45,000 £43,227
% change year-on-year -1.02% +4.10% -13.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,497 3,490 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.79% 40.06% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,057 1,628 2,591
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +7 56 £47,500 +11.76% 20
Hampshire -14 46 £29,500 -37.89% 10
Berkshire +30 34 £47,500 -7.32% 8
Kent -18 13 £30,000 - 9
Buckinghamshire -24 12 £67,500 +92.86% 11
Oxfordshire -20 10 £32,500 -3.70% 1
Surrey -40 10 £49,500 +10.00% 6
East Sussex -13 5 £40,000 -32.20% 3
Middlesex +35 2 £65,000 - 3
West Sussex -18 1 £31,000 -38.00% 4
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (15.56%) SharePoint
3 10 (7.41%) Apache
3 10 (7.41%) nginx
4 5 (3.70%) WordPress
5 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.48%) PTC Creo
2 2 (1.48%) Windchill
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (57.78%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (48.89%) Azure
3 30 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 16 (11.85%) AWS
5 10 (7.41%) IaaS
6 9 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 9 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (6.67%) Serverless
7 8 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (5.93%) Google Workspace
7 8 (5.93%) SaaS
8 5 (3.70%) GitHub
9 4 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.96%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.96%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.48%) GCP
10 2 (1.48%) PaaS
11 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (31.11%) Firewall
2 34 (25.19%) DNS
3 26 (19.26%) DHCP
4 20 (14.81%) LAN
4 20 (14.81%) WAN
5 19 (14.07%) VPN
6 18 (13.33%) VLAN
7 13 (9.63%) VoIP
8 12 (8.89%) SSL
9 11 (8.15%) TCP/IP
10 8 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (3.70%) Internet
12 4 (2.96%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (2.96%) LTE
12 4 (2.96%) VSAT
12 4 (2.96%) Wireless
12 4 (2.96%) WLAN
13 1 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Metadata
3 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) JIRA
General
1 97 (71.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.37%) Finance
2 14 (10.37%) Retail
3 10 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.70%) French Language
7 5 (3.70%) Multimedia
8 4 (2.96%) Electronics
8 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.48%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (29.63%) IT Support
2 30 (22.22%) Analyst
3 22 (16.30%) Support Analyst
4 21 (15.56%) 1st Line Support
4 21 (15.56%) 1st Line Support Technician
4 21 (15.56%) Support Technician
5 17 (12.59%) IT Analyst
5 17 (12.59%) IT Engineer
5 17 (12.59%) IT Support Analyst
6 16 (11.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (11.85%) Support Engineer
7 15 (11.11%) Senior
8 12 (8.89%) Operations Manager
9 11 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) NOC Manager
11 9 (6.67%) Senior IT Support
12 8 (5.93%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.93%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 8 (5.93%) Developer
12 8 (5.93%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) .NET
2 7 (5.19%) Web Services
3 5 (3.70%) CSS
3 5 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.78%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.48%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.48%) PKI
4 2 (1.48%) Replication
4 2 (1.48%) SCADA
4 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.74%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (34.07%) Windows
2 33 (24.44%) Windows Server
3 14 (10.37%) Linux
4 9 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 9 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.30%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (25.19%) Customer Service
3 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 28 (20.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (16.30%) High Availability
7 20 (14.81%) Computer Science
7 20 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (14.07%) ITIL
9 16 (11.85%) Project Delivery
10 14 (10.37%) ITSM
11 12 (8.89%) Kalman Filter
12 11 (8.15%) ERP
13 10 (7.41%) Cloud Security
13 10 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (7.41%) Migration
13 10 (7.41%) Software Engineering
13 10 (7.41%) Systems Engineering
14 9 (6.67%) API Management
14 9 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.85%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.37%) SQL
3 13 (9.63%) Python
4 11 (8.15%) Ruby
5 10 (7.41%) C#
6 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.70%) R
8 4 (2.96%) Bash
8 4 (2.96%) Perl
9 2 (1.48%) Java
Qualifications
1 73 (54.07%) Degree
2 34 (25.19%) A+ Certification
3 32 (23.70%) Azure Certification
4 13 (9.63%) MCSE
5 12 (8.89%) AWS Certification
5 12 (8.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (8.15%) HNC
6 11 (8.15%) Security Cleared
7 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 10 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
8 8 (5.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (5.93%) DBS Check
9 6 (4.44%) CCNA
9 6 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (2.96%) HND
11 4 (2.96%) MCSA
12 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.48%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (5.93%) GDPR
4 7 (5.19%) QA
5 4 (2.96%) NCSC
6 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (28.15%) Active Directory
2 30 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (16.30%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.70%) Squid
5 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (20.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.93%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (3.70%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.48%) SCCM
4 2 (1.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (0.74%) Autotask
5 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 133 (98.52%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.93%) VMware
3 21 (15.56%) Veeam
4 14 (10.37%) Cisco
5 9 (6.67%) Apple
5 9 (6.67%) Oracle
5 9 (6.67%) SonicWALL
6 8 (5.93%) Datto
6 8 (5.93%) Google
6 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.19%) HubSpot
8 5 (3.70%) Citrix
9 4 (2.96%) Acronis
9 4 (2.96%) N-able
10 3 (2.22%) Dell
11 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.48%) PTC
11 2 (1.48%) Symantec
12 1 (0.74%) ConnectWise
12 1 (0.74%) Juniper